Daniel 2:39

2:39 Now after you another kingdom ¹  will arise, one inferior to yours. Then a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule in all the earth.

Daniel 5:2

5:2 While under the influence ²  of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels – the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father ³  had confiscated ⁴  from the temple in Jerusalem ⁵  – so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them. ⁶ 

Daniel 5:16

5:16 However, I have heard ⁷  that you are able to provide interpretations and to decipher knotty problems. Now if you are able to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, you will wear purple and have a golden collar around your neck and be third ⁸  ruler in the kingdom.”

Daniel 6:23-24

6:23 Then the king was delighted and gave an order to haul Daniel up from the den. So Daniel was hauled up out of the den. He had no injury of any kind, because he had trusted in his God. 6:24 The king gave another order, ⁹  and those men who had maliciously accused ¹⁰  Daniel were brought and thrown ¹¹  into the lions’ den – they, their children, and their wives. ¹²  They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

Daniel 9:12

9:12 He has carried out his threats ¹³  against us and our rulers ¹⁴  who were over ¹⁵  us by bringing great calamity on us – what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!

[2:39]  ¹ sn The identity of the first kingdom is clearly Babylon. The identification of the following three kingdoms is disputed. The common view is that they represent Media, Persia, and Greece. Most conservative scholars identify them as Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome.

[5:2]  ² tn Or perhaps, “when he had tasted” (cf. NASB) in the sense of officially initiating the commencement of the banquet. The translation above seems preferable, however, given the clear evidence of inebriation in the context (cf. also CEV “he got drunk and ordered”).

[5:2]  ³ tn Or “ancestor”; or “predecessor” (also in vv. 11, 13, 18). The Aramaic word translated “father” can on occasion denote these other relationships.

[5:2]  ⁴ tn Or “taken.”

[5:2]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:2]  ⁶ sn Making use of sacred temple vessels for an occasion of reveling and drunkenness such as this would have been a religious affront of shocking proportions to the Jewish captives.

[5:16]  ⁷ tn The Aramaic text has also the words “about you.”

[5:16]  ⁸ tn Or perhaps “one of three rulers,” in the sense of becoming part of a triumvir. So also v. 29.

[6:24]  ⁹ tn Aram “said.”

[6:24]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “had eaten the pieces of.” The Aramaic expression is ironic, in that the accusers who had figuratively “eaten the pieces of Daniel” are themselves literally devoured by the lions.

[6:24]  ¹¹ tn The Aramaic active impersonal verb is often used as a substitute for the passive.

[6:24]  ¹² tc The LXX specifies only the two overseers, together with their families, as those who were cast into the lions’ den.

[9:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “he has fulfilled his word(s) which he spoke.”

[9:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “our judges.”

[9:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “who judged.”